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Nigel Lane - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Nigel has been a paid youthworker since 1991 with a wide range of experiences from nice high school kids; to youth detention centres; to growing his own children [and now grand children!]; to working with parents; to presenting in schools to well - ask and he won;t bite!
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- What Teens Fear Telling Their Parents?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Once children enter their teens, sometimes there develops a potential communication gap between them and their parents. It can be extremely difficult to find common ground for any deep and meaningful conversation.
- Managing Parenting In Your Busy Schedule
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The cost of living, particularly for families, can be extremely high these days. Many parents are driven into working two or more jobs simply to make ends meet. Both the mother and the father are working; the children are either left with grandparents or with other carers. A normal working day can involve up to approximately 12-14 hours. All this just to make ends meet.
- How To Tell If Your Teenager Is Using Drugs
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Deception or concealment and the use of drugs and alcohol in teens go hand in hand. Because drug use is illegal and dangerous, teenagers are not able to use drugs without having to hide their problem from parents, teachers and other authority figures in their lives. Drug use is also a costly habit, and teenagers rarely have access to the financial resources necessary to sustain a drug habit.
- Alcohol Abuse and Troubled Teens
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Alcohol Abuse in troubled teens is increasing. Alcohol gives teenagers the power to express themselves without inhibitions. It allows them to self-medicate to numb the pain of a turbulent world around them. Alcohol use in teenagers can get out of control and lead to death.
- Why Does God Not Answer Me?
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Probably all Christians go through times when it seems like their prayers are not answered. However, if you pray with the right motives yet receive no answer, it does not mean that God is ignoring you. He might be answering in a way you never expected.
- How to Give When it Hurts
[News-and-Society:Religion] When you sacrifice for others who have a real need, it is a true model of Christian giving. However it is not easy to give when it is a great sacrifice. It hurts yet God blesses this type of giving.
- How Do You Know an Open Door is From God?
[News-and-Society:Religion] How do you know when a door opens if it is God's will? Here we discuss how to recognize when an open door is clearly not God's will. And, we also discuss which direction to take when it is unclear as to if an open door is God's will.
- Doing the Right Thing - No Matter What
[News-and-Society:Religion] Doing the right thing is not always the easy or convenient thing to do. But doing the right thing has the greatest impact on others as we set out to live an example of our faith in God. There are plenty of models in the Bible that clearly show us what the right thing to do is.
- Why Parenting Is Important?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents are the most important teachers in their children's lives. Children learn most of their moral values from their parents. If you have noticed most children imitate their parents.
- What Are The Challenges Facing Parents Today?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parenting is a gift that God bestows on us. It is a great responsibility. However, in today's society the job is getting tougher and tougher.
- Tips And Tools Of Communication For Parents With Teens
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] In some respects, you do not know what parenting is until your children hit their teens. It's a whole new ball game.
- The Parent's Responsibility in Sex Education
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents ought to be the first source of sex education for their children. Don't think that because children can learn about human sexuality in school, your responsibility to teach them about sex has been removed.
- The Changing Face Of Educating Parents
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Educating parents has been developing over the last couple of decades. In many places in the world, today, there is a widespread intensive effort to support parents through educational programs.
- Parental Responsibility
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Children are not easy to raise, they do not come with any guidelines and they most definitely do not come with any kind of pause button. They just come with a whole lot of emotional and physical needs.
- Family Time And Good Parenting Go Hand In Hand
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] It is essential that you spend quality family time with your kids. You will not get this time back. These are the few days you have to build memories that will last for the rest of your life.
- Avoiding Internet Dating Dangers for Teenagers
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The proliferation of Internet dating sites that are easily accessible by teenagers should be a concern to both parents and authorities. Because many Internet dating sites are offering free services to everybody, many child predators and people with malicious intent towards teenagers are finding their way towards dating sites. They disguise themselves as another teenager looking for a date or somebody that only wants to be friends with the younger demographic.
- Three Stages Of Adolescence
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Commentators agree that adolescence can be broken down into key stages. Narramore and Lewis, in 'Parenting Teens', establish four bands of youth in which distinctive patterns of behaviour can be seen. They label these pre, early, middle and late adolescence. Pre-adolescence, extends from 10 to 12, early adolescence from 13 to 14.
- Initiation and the Teenager
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] In pre-industrial cultures, the transition from childhood to adulthood was accomplished in a short time span, and often accompanied by a decisive ceremony, such as the Jewish Bar Mitzvah. Nelson Mandela describes in painful detail the day, at sixteen, when he was accepted into adulthood in a traditional ceremony of circumcision.
- Conflict is Inevitable
[Relationships:Conflict] What is your immediate response to conflict? Do you wish it didn't exist or could be eliminated from life completely? Do you always back off and do nothing in a quest for and a belief in 'anything for a quiet life'?
- 7 Things Teens Don't Like In Their Parents
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Of course they realise that parents are human and emotional beings, but they don't like to see angry parents. Especially if they are angry at each other (Mum and Dad fighting) and it doesn't help when they are disciplined by a parent in an angry state. Please keep your arguments in private and never tell someone off until you have calmed down.
- 5 Things Teens DO Like In Their Parents
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Part of growing up is understanding people, learning how they act and think - observing behaviours as young people try and work out who they are. So they love it when their parents can be real; when they don't need to act intelligent, or to act strong, or to act calm but to allow them into some of the real conflicts that the adult world provides. When we show emotion, we hug them - just being ourselves.
- When I Was Your Age - 3 Things Missing
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] When I was your age ... those words precede many sentences to children and young people. I don't wish to shatter any adult illusions but it doesn't actually matter what follows those words as young people aren't listening. In a sense they feel they have heard it all before.
- The Top 10 Things A Parent Can Do To Help Their Child Reach Their Ultimate Potential
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] often we can stifle the imagination of our children by passing comment in a negative way; it can even be communicated by our tone of voice. We need to be careful what signals we give and make only positive, challenging comments that will not put limits on their thinking.
- Priorities For Parents
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] In an age where we face constant attention for our time, talents and resources we have had to learn to prioritise - work out what is important to us for our family at this stage of our life. The same is true for parents - so I would offer two priorities for parents.
- Parents And Youth Ministry
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Love it or hate it the fact remains the same parents are inextricably linked with youth ministry. I have experienced the good, the bad and the ugly side of the relationship but it is clearly one that is here to stay. I suggest, therefore, that you spend some time thinking the issues through to enable you to increase the good, reduce the bad and eliminate the ugly.
- 5 And A Half Steps On the Inevitable Journey From Childhood To Adulthood
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] If we are to understand teenagers then it will be good for us to understand some of the journey that they take from childhood to adulthood - the journey of adolescence. I don't intend this article to become a theoretical thesis on the journey but rather an overview of the types of issues young people face and some of the implications.
- Raising Teens on a Tight Budget
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Financial pressure is at a peak when you have teenagers in the home - will they ever understand that money doesn't grow on trees? Learn how to raise teens whilst on a tight budget by reading this article.
- 12 Things You Should Never Say To a Teenager
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Some things are best just left unsaid, certain things just aren't helpful - here are 12 of them! Saying these things to your teenager won't be helpful.
- Daughters - How to Live with Them but Remain Sane
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] We will consider daughters from both a Dad's and a Mom's point of view although the information is also useful for any youthworker working with girls as it gives insights into how they think and how they need to be treated.
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